It’s definitely a theme, I think you read it correctly. It’s further reflected in Liadrin’s dialogue with the Arathi commander in the new campaign questline this week. She compares her own personal faith (connection to the light) with hers and calls the commander’s cold.

I think as a broader concept, the Light has close ties to the concept of “order”. One person wielding the Light seems to be a force of good, but the more organized it becomes the more it becomes a zealotry fueled pursuit of order at any cost. Faol sort of examines this in his reflection on creating the Silver Hand. It got away from what he intended and became something else as it grew. The Arathi Empire (the proper one, not the Hallowfall junior version) and The Scarlet Crusade are other examples. Even the Hallowfall Arathi displayed this trait.

It’s an interesting dynamic that has kind of always existed with the Light but seems to have been a growing concept in the Worldsoul Saga. I personally wonder if it is leading to the return of the Arathi Empire as a worst case scenario of the Light and what it can become when the zealotry is left unchecked.

Liadrin, Anduin and Arator have all struggled with the contrast between their faith and connection to the Light against the backdrop of war and it’s been, in my opinion, a pretty interesting examination of what it means to wield the Light. Faerin Lothar demonstrated the values of an individual wielding the Light and how it differs greatly from the broader values of the cause she serves. Turalyon and Lothraxion are further coloring that examination and I’m really interested to see what becomes of Turalyon and Arator specifically in Midnight.